Cassey Ho

[Vee]

I appreciate what she has done, but I also think she gives more attention to those comments than they deserve. Firstly, she is a slender, fit girl who looks letter than the average woman would after photoshopping. More importantly, body-shamers are shallow, superficial, spiteful people. A better message to put out would be that their comments are not worth sparing a second over.

Working at being kind, talented, responsible is so much more important than meeting some kind of body ideal. I wish women who are multi-faceted would base their self worth on all dimensions of themselves. We should be immune to pressure from this ridiculous segment of society that places such a disproportionate value on appearance.

[hotncmom]

I'm really cynical about her approach. This isn't the first time she's called attention to herself in this way. She always looks great and she should ignore the childish comments. Instead, she posts and claims that people are trying to put her down and then all of her fans start gushing over how great she looks. Except this time she has created a video to go along with it.

I think she's just an opportunist and trying to jump on the healthy body image bandwagon. She's probably got a social media manager who can nip those comments in the bud and she would never have to read them. Instead, she's capitalizing on them and using them to draw more attention to herself.

[bubbles76]

I don't know hotncmom. I don't follow Cassy, but I don't really think she is fishing for compliments. I think that by calling attention to the comments, she is seeking for people to have intelligent conversations about a multitude of thing: (1) how cyber bullying is bad (2) how one should accept what their body is and isn't (3) how photoshop can be a bad thing if taken out of hand (4) how people should think twice before making certain comments online. (5) how even people who appear to be so confident and happy have their own insecurities and battles to fight. I know that I have to remind myself of #5 a lot. And to just say "develop a tough skin, you knew what field you were getting into and what criticisms would come your way" is true, but not everyone can be on their A game 100% of the time.

I think that if she wasn't a person making a living off how she looks maybe it wouldn't sting so bad. Maybe making the video DOES give her attention, but it has the bigger side affect of making people think about different issues.

[MomOf2Gremlins]

Originally Posted by bubbles76

.... I think that by calling attention to the comments, she is seeking for people to have intelligent conversations about a multitude of thing: (1) how cyber bullying is bad (2) how one should accept what their body is and isn't (3) how photoshop can be a bad thing if taken out of hand (4) how people should think twice before making certain comments online. (5) how even people who appear to be so confident and happy have their own insecurities and battles to fight. I know that I have to remind myself of #5 a lot. ....

Well said, Bubbles! That's how I took Cassey's video response as well! I agree with what many have said already, that most negative comments must come from miserable or immature people!..